when i did the pre-patch for MoP, the game crashed: black graphics, blue screen, computer froze, etc... i was in the beta and had no issues. they definitely added something to the live MoP graphics.

i posted on the tech forums and put in my dxdiag text. i wasn't the only one. lots of people had their graphics go stupid with the MoP pre-patch. i run it on a core2 duo laptop. i noticed in the tech thread, there were even people with i7 cpu's posting the same issues. the response we all got was: "update your video card driver" or "your video card is no longer supported."

how i fixed my particular issues on a core2 duo, 6gig ram, HD4650 graphics was to enable v-sync, low shadows and low water. runs fine now and i can do maxview without any slow-down (if my setup has no issues with maxview, your's definitely shouldn't). anyways, some of the guys also posted saying that going back to dx9 also helped them. something to try.

Are you running any browser tab with YouTube or any kind of flash running? If so, right click in the flash and go into settings and disable hardware acceleration, then reload all tabs just in case

Disabled it, nothing changed.

Originally Posted by rnbwtrout

when i did the pre-patch for MoP, the game crashed: black graphics, blue screen, computer froze, etc... i was in the beta and had no issues. they definitely added something to the live MoP graphics.

i posted on the tech forums and put in my dxdiag text. i wasn't the only one. lots of people had their graphics go stupid with the MoP pre-patch. i run it on a core2 duo laptop. i noticed in the tech thread, there were even people with i7 cpu's posting the same issues. the response we all got was: "update your video card driver" or "your video card is no longer supported."

how i fixed my particular issues on a core2 duo, 6gig ram, HD4650 graphics was to enable v-sync, low shadows and low water. runs fine now and i can do maxview without any slow-down (if my setup has no issues with maxview, your's definitely shouldn't). anyways, some of the guys also posted saying that going back to dx9 also helped them. something to try.

Having the exact same problem here. Even the framerates are the same. I used to have an AMD 4550 graphics card, I recently switched to a Nvidea geforce gtx600 oc and the game runs just the same if not worse. It seems quite silly if my PC can run Battlefield 3 fully maxed out without any lag and WoW has such FPS. Btw my processor is a AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.80 GHz and have 12gb ram.

Yeah... While the CPU is indeed important in WoW, I wouldn't go so far as to say it'll be what caps it if it's even just a decent CPU. I can hit 200fps with my pretty garbage CPU (Q6600) as well as I have more than enough RAM (16gb DDR3) and a good video card (660Ti). When I had a 9800GTX+, I was sitting at much lower frames. The only reason I haven't upgraded the CPU is I would need to get a new mobo and atm I really can't afford to get one as when I do get one, I want to get a new everything and use this computer as a backup. Soon, though. Soon I will make my new baby.

you should check your gpu-usage.
i have kinda the same issue with kinda the same hardware, but after having watched what my gpu load is it was clear (98%-99% gpu load)
so either some weird process is using up lots of my resources or my gpu isn't strong enough anymore to keep my settings that high :P

you should check your gpu-usage.
i have kinda the same issue with kinda the same hardware, but after having watched what my gpu load is it was clear (98%-99% gpu load)
so either some weird process is using up lots of my resources or my gpu isn't strong enough anymore to keep my settings that high :P

Mists of Pandaria, and open world especially, have changed and rustled around the priorities of the engine slightly; Now it will tax a higher end GPU more than they used to.
Raids/40man BGs are likely to be still mostly CPU-bound, but the rest even further GPU-bound than before. It happens.

But a fresh install of the wow-client when you get new hardware is always a good idea.

I have been having the exact same issue and have been scouring all forums for a fix. I get around 30FPS on ultra in Pandaria with occasional spike to 50s if I look down at the ground for a few secs. Tried everything (reinstalls, driver updates, Over clocking GPU), nothing helps. Have to kill shadows and viewing distance to get decent FPS. Also posted on Tom's hardware and they suggested running WoW on just one processor. That did nothing as well. Any help would be welcome.

Anyone with a similar issue who manages to get some improvement, please update this thread.

P.S. Strangest thing, I get worse FPS if I overclock the GPU compared to stock speeds.

EDIT: To the poster above my post, I tried it on DX9 an DX11, nothing helped.

I have been having the exact same issue and have been scouring all forums for a fix. I get around 30FPS on ultra in Pandaria with occasional spike to 50s if I look down at the ground for a few secs. Tried everything (reinstalls, driver updates, Over clocking GPU), nothing helps. Have to kill shadows and viewing distance to get decent FPS. Also posted on Tom's hardware and they suggested running WoW on just one processor. That did nothing as well. Any help would be welcome.

Anyone with a similar issue who manages to get some improvement, please update this thread.

P.S. Strangest thing, I get worse FPS if I overclock the GPU compared to stock speeds.

EDIT: To the poster above my post, I tried it on DX9 an DX11, nothing helped.

WoW is in 64bit as well right?

I am not having this issue at all.
i5-2500k at 4.3
8gb Corsair Vengeance 1600
2x7970 in CF (normally only one running when playing WoW)
5760x1080 eyefinity
All settings on Ultra

Have you tried with all addons off?
I had an issue with one a bit ago that dropped my FPS to 10 from 70-80 normally.

Have you overclocked your video card? If not, try that and see if it gets better, if so back it off a bit and see if your hitting Error corrections.

Can you run performance metrics? See what your CPU and GPU use are at. Also, see how much memory is being taken up on the card, could approach limit.

What ATi drivers are you running, I forget on mine but can look them up later.

I have been having the exact same issue and have been scouring all forums for a fix. I get around 30FPS on ultra in Pandaria with occasional spike to 50s if I look down at the ground for a few secs. Tried everything (reinstalls, driver updates, Over clocking GPU), nothing helps. Have to kill shadows and viewing distance to get decent FPS. Also posted on Tom's hardware and they suggested running WoW on just one processor. That did nothing as well. Any help would be welcome.

Anyone with a similar issue who manages to get some improvement, please update this thread.

P.S. Strangest thing, I get worse FPS if I overclock the GPU compared to stock speeds.

EDIT: To the poster above my post, I tried it on DX9 an DX11, nothing helped.

So its not because of my HDD then, since you have a SSD.

Im raiding atm, 10 man. And i have to to set everything to Good, and even then I fps-drops alot. Having ~35-40 usually. And again, thats in 10man! Its damn annoying.

Personally i think its a GPU-problem, since low-settings works much, much better. Wanna try older drivers.
I have DX11 aswell, newest driver. My CPU and GPU-load = both around ~50%. Kinda never above that.

---------- Post added 2012-10-03 at 10:22 PM ----------

Originally Posted by Runzlikegirl

WoW is in 64bit as well right?

I am not having this issue at all.
i5-2500k at 4.3
8gb Corsair Vengeance 1600
2x7970 in CF (normally only one running when playing WoW)
5760x1080 eyefinity
All settings on Ultra

Have you tried with all addons off?
I had an issue with one a bit ago that dropped my FPS to 10 from 70-80 normally.

Have you overclocked your video card? If not, try that and see if it gets better, if so back it off a bit and see if your hitting Error corrections.

Can you run performance metrics? See what your CPU and GPU use are at. Also, see how much memory is being taken up on the card, could approach limit.

What ATi drivers are you running, I forget on mine but can look them up later.

(EDIT) What is your memory config, 2 dimms or 4? What is the voltage?

Yes, WoW 64bits. Havent checked gpu-memory yet, will do that. But i have a 2GB version of the 7850.

2 memory-sticks. 1.5v, as they should.
Have not overclocked my GPU yet.

I am not having this issue at all.
i5-2500k at 4.3
8gb Corsair Vengeance 1600
2x7970 in CF (normally only one running when playing WoW)
5760x1080 eyefinity
All settings on Ultra

Have you tried with all addons off?
I had an issue with one a bit ago that dropped my FPS to 10 from 70-80 normally.

Have you overclocked your video card? If not, try that and see if it gets better, if so back it off a bit and see if your hitting Error corrections.

Can you run performance metrics? See what your CPU and GPU use are at. Also, see how much memory is being taken up on the card, could approach limit.

What ATi drivers are you running, I forget on mine but can look them up later.

(EDIT) What is your memory config, 2 dimms or 4? What is the voltage?

I have two dimms, 1.5V. Max bandwidth is PC3-10700H (667MHz) in slots 2 and 4. Are they sub par?

The display drivers are from 7/27/12, Driver version 8.982.0.0

I tried Over clocking the card and no change. Strangely enough, got a small dip in performance when I over clocked the GPU so left it on stock speed.

I am taking inventory and the only thing that I have not upgraded yet is my PSU, which is at 500MW. Can that be an issue? I am able to get over 60 FPS in Diablo 3 and Skyrim so didnt think hardware was an issue.

i had to post seen as tho we have the same GPU - Issue AMD / Blizzard don't know about with 7850's ? tho afaik View distance is a CPU setting in which case alright i can admit the fact i cant run ultra view distance but Low to Fair i lose 10-20(30 in some cases) fps all of a sudden... even Low to high shadows doesn't hurt my FPS as much.

I know my GPU is largely bottlenecked due to my CPU (Athlon II x4 640 3ghz) but I feel this issue came to light pre-mop launch. As my view distance setting was always fair and i'd keep a nice 60fps in most battlegrounds soon as pre-mop came out with the same settings i'd lost 10-20fps in battlegrounds

I think theres a good chance you are using all the memory on the card. Is there any way you can try out a 2gb card for a while?
*Edit*
I had a similar issue with my old card. There was a certain point when turning up settings that my cards memory would max and it slowed right down (I believe it uses the system memory when this happens). Is there maybe a vram program that will check the useage?

Is it possible that this is a filter effect related slow-down? It sounds as though the game's potentially trying to antialias objects that aren't even visible, or as though it's trying to apply some kind of hardware effect to everything in range. I used to get this kind of issue when using supersampling and AA in certain games with older Nvidia drivers. It would basically try to apply the effect to everything, even things that it shouldn't and it would slow everything down.

Is there a Catalyst profile for the game that might be trying to apply something ineffectively?